Word: collegian
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...Earlier this year, reporters at Colorado State’s Rocky Mountain Collegian learned that the university president had been secretly meeting with representatives from a local paper, The Coloradoan, to discuss what school officials have billed as a “partnership” between the two papers. But what they call a partnership is really an acquisition of the non-profit Collegian by Gannett, the for-profit publisher of The Coloradoan. Gannett, best known for USA Today, is America’s largest newspaper publisher and already owns two student newspapers in Florida, though those were for-profit...
...There is rampant speculation within the pages of the Collegian that the university president’s attempts to sell the paper are connected to the public uproar over the Bush editorial last fall, when the editor-in-chief, David McSwane, was disciplined but allowed to keep his position. Nevertheless, the incident is hardly grounds to hand over responsibility for the paper to an outside company. In the words of Sean Reed, the Collegian’s editorials editor, “a petty dispute with a small group of students is no reason to hand a CSU tradition...
...eighth semester and his degree in biology this January, fouled out with a minute-and-a-half to play, allowing him to be recognized by the crowd of 1,632, which included a large contingent of his family.As he walked off the court for the last time as a collegian after being whistled for a fifth foul, the fans at Lavietes rose to their feet to give the big man a final ovation. Cusworth shook hands with all the players on the bench, then got a hug from coach Frank Sullivan before sitting down to watch his teammates close...
...culture of decorous restraint that might have attended a Japanese victory in World War II. We are finally asked to leave—the restaurant is closing—and I break off with soberer friends. All of us are walking by Winthrop when we see a shirtless collegian charging down the street with a girl riding piggyback atop him. The eponymous Rev. Increase Mather leaps to mind, who noted in his sermon “Woe to Drunkards” that “a Beast will drink no more than shall do him good; and therefore a Drunkard...
...then went down and did an event at Penn State and the shirts were really hot and it just took off: our first 400 shirts went in 30 minutes,” Bishop said. “We got a lot of publicity through the Penn State Collegian and local news, and a few days later they ordered 1,000 more shirts...